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My Encore Excursions

  • WordPrompt May STRONG

    WordPrompt May STRONG

    This month ‘Strong’ is the WordPress monthly prompt and an opportunity for me to share how sketching makes ‘strong memories’. For those who are not WordPress publishers the monthly prompt challenge is to help writers with a creative topic, a ‘monthly word to inspire a new post whatever you publish’. So here is my May […]

    MSRitzman

    May 23, 2022
    Education, Sketching, Travel & Tours
    #WordPrompt, Strong, watercolor practice, wordpress
  • Lettering Lesson

    Lettering Lesson

    Adding words to a sketch is a good practice to understand so Jean Mackay provided us with a few tips for hand-lettering during the Nature Sketching workshop in Italy. I am not much for adding phrases into my work but some simple steps for making lettering look polished were welcome. We spent about 20 minutes […]

    MSRitzman

    May 22, 2022
    2022 Color
    color choices, hand-lettering, Jean Mackay, jeanmackayart.com, lettering basics, watercolor practice, Winslowartcenter.com
  • Lessons Learned

    Lessons Learned

    After a week of staying at a stunning castle in Italy with the camaraderie of a dozen like minded watercolor sketchers now is a good time to reflect on lessons learned… and to imprint those lessons into my daily sketch routine. This was a Winslow Arts Center workshop; Nature Sketching in Italy with Jean Mackay. […]

    MSRitzman

    May 15, 2022
    2022 Color
    castello di petroia, color, color choices, color combination, Color value, Jean Mackay, watercolor values, Winslowartcenter.com
  • Italian Earth Colors

    Italian Earth Colors

    Raw Sienna. Burnt Sienna. These earth colors are associated with the Italian landscape and essential for a palette used for nature sketching in Italy – our color topic today. Jean Mackay is leading a Winslow Art Center workshop in Italy where I hope to up my skills in composition and page refinement while sketching outdoors.

    MSRitzman

    April 26, 2022
    2022 Color, Travel & Tours
    color choices, Color week, Italian colors, Jean Mackay, watercolor practice, Winslowartcenter.com
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